Passenger-car.



C. B. STEELE.

PASSENGER CAR.

APPEICATION FILED JAN-29.1914.

Patented May 1, 1917;

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PASSENGER CAR. APPLICATION HLED JAN. 29, 1914.

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PASSENGER CAR.

APPLICAIION FILED JAN. 29, 1914.

Patented May 1, 1917.

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APPLICATION FILED JAN. 29, I914.

Patented May1,1917;

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PASSENGER CAR.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 29, 1914.

Patented May 1, 1917.

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PASSENGER-CAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 1, 11917.

Application filed January 29, 1914. Serial No. 815,264.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES BREWSTER STEELE, a citizen of the United States, of the city, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Passenger-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is a passenger car in which the conductor collects the fare on the platform before the passenger enters the body of the car, and more especially consists of an end platform constructed to permit the simultaneous entrance and exit of passengers over the same platform, when such platform is used as the rear of the car, and for the exit only of passengers therefrom when the said platform is used as the front of the car.

Another object of my invention is to provide a station for the conductor at one side of the passageways for the entrance and the exit of passengers, so that the passengers will not hinder the conductor in the performance of his duties, and the conductor be enabled, at all times, to command a complete view of incoming, outgoing, standing, and seated passei'igers, without being compelled to turn around or change his position.

Another object of my invention is to provide a station for the conductor so that the conductor always faces the incoming and outgoing passengers, who must thus pass the conductor. in single file, rendering it im-- possible for the conductor to miss any fares, and to enable the conductor to fully observe outgoing passengers while collecting the fares of incoming passengers.

Another object of my invention is to provide a conductors station out of the line of travel of both incoming and outgoing passengers.

Another object of my invention is the providing of a station for the motorman so that standing and outgoing passengers will not inconvenience the motorman, nor interfere with the proper performance of his duties, and that the exit of passengers from the car may be safely accelerated and hastened.

Another object of my invention is the provision of a barrier around the single exit passageway to guide passengers safely past the single exit passageway when the platform is used as the rear of the car.

Another object of my invention is to pro vide the car with immovable steps within the vertical planes of the side walls of the car extended, as an assurance against the class of accidents heretofore caused by the catching of passengers feet and clothing by movable steps, and to prevent the sidewiping of pedestrians and traflic by steps that heretofore have projected beyond the vertical planes of side walls of a car, all of which is hereinafter more fully described in this specification, designated in the appended claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which like characters represent like parts in the different figures respectively.

Figure 1 is an isometric perspective of one end of the car and vestibuled platform, with parts broken away, showing the arrangement of the entrance and exits, and the steps, doors, and barriers on the vestibuled platform, and the partitions, or barriers, at the end of the body of the car, the supports, or knees, extending under the vestibule, and the conductors and the motormans stations.

Fig. 2 is a plan of the vestibuled platform, showing its relation to the end of the car, with the walls of the car and partitions, and the walls of the platform, and doors thereof in section, showing the entrance and exit passageways with the steps therein, and the platform barriers, the supports, or knees, of the vestibuled platform, and the conductors and motormans stations.

Fig. 3 is a plan of the vestibuled platform, similar to Fig. 2, with the entrance and exit passageways in the same relative position as in Fig. 2, but with the opposite single exit passageway immediately adjacent to the body of the car, instead of at the outer end of the platform, the walls of the car and vestibuled platform being in section, and the supports, or knees, in dotted lines, and the conductors and motormans stations.

Fig. f is a plan of the end of the car and vestibuled platform, with the same relative arrangement of entrance and exits as in Fig. 3, showing the walls of the car and vestibule in section, with the barriers and steps, and

the supports, or knees, for the vestibuled -platform shown in dotted lines under the platform, and extending in full lines to the car bolster, since the body of the car is broken away, and the conductors and mo tormans stations.

Fig. 5 is a plan of the end of the car and platform, showing the partitions, or

barriers, at the end of the body of the car, and the floor of the platform on a level,

throughout, in which all steps are outsidethe main body of the platform, showing the entrance and the exit passageways, and the opposite single exit passageway at the end of the platform, the barriers, and the sup ports, or knees, in dotted lines under the platform, and in full lines adjacent the side walls of the car, and the conductors and the motormans station's.

F 6 is the same as Fig. 5, with the exception of the single exit passageway, being adjacent the end of the body of the car, showing the eonductofis and the motormans stations. I

Fig. 7 is the same as Fig. 5, with the exception that the car is constructed with-out partitions, or barriers, where the platform joins the car body.

Fig. 8' is the same as Fig. 6, with the exception that the car is constructed without partitions, o-r' barriers between its body and its platform.

Fig. 9 is similar to Fig. 5, showing the steps or the entrance and the exit passageways construete'd within the sides of the platform, and the conductors and the motormarrs station's.

Fig. 10 is similar to Fig. 6, showing the steps of the entrance and the exits con-- structed within the sides of the platform, and the eorrducto'rs and the motormans stations.

The numeral 1 represents the side walls of the main body of the car, 2, its door, 3 the partitions, or barriers, at the end of the body of the car, and al the end sills of the car body, which forms a step riser between the floor of the ear and the floor of the vestibuled platform 5. Numeral 6 denotes the folding doors of the entrance passageway for passengers that leads over the platform, 5', to the body of the car, which is separated from the near-side exit passageway for passengers by barrier 7, leading from the body of the car, over the platform 5, to the outlet from the platform, which is closed by folding doors 8 The partitions 3 are spaced from one another, forming a passenger opening in the end of the car, preferably divided by barrier 7, into two equal passageways provided at the side of the platform, 5', with the stairwell, D and stairway's, E, E,- located wholly within the verti-cal plane of the side walls of the car extended, which form the nearside entrance and exit. Both the entrance and the exit passageways are provided with a plurality of immovable steps, 9* and 10, below the level of the platform 5, .located wholly within the vertical planes of the outside walls, 1, of the body of the carextended. The folding doors, 6 and 8, are adapted to swing over the bottom step 9, to close the vestibule. The numeral 11 denotes the farther, or offside, wall of the vestibuled platform, which is preferably made of two walls spaced apart, in order that the sliding door 12, which closes the opposite offside single exit, may enter therein. This single exit passageway is, also, provided with the stairwell F and stairway G, containing the immovable steps, 13 and let, below the platform 5, disposed wholly within the vertical plane of the ontside wall of the car extended, and are located as diselosed'in Figs'. 1,3,and 4 adjacent the end of the car body, but, as disclosed in Fig. 2-, are located at the outer end of the platform, yet, in either construction there is a space, C, on the platform 5, at one side of the single exit passageway, at the end of the steps, for the conducto1"s station. Numeral 15' denotes a portable farebox.

In Figs. 1, 2, and 4, is placed a barrier 16, at the end of the steps, to which is flexibly connected a swinging barrier 17, which maybe swung to the position shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 4. to guard the single offside exit, when the nearside of the car is being used for entrance and exit of passengers, and may be swung to connect with barrier 7, in Figs. 1 and 1, when the offside single exit is to'be used for passengers, thus closing off the front of the car and preventing passengers from encroaching upon the motorinar'i hindering him in the performance of his duties, the motormans station being denoted in all the figures by the letter M.

In Fig. 2, barrier 17 is shown in position extending toward the outer end of the platform, to guard the offside single exit, but, when said exit is in use the barrier 17 is swung to barrier 8, in order that the passengers may pass from the car to the offside single exit.

In all the Figs. 1, 2, and et, the swinging barrier 17 may be placed and secured in three positions, namely; to connect with partition,- or barrier, 3'; to barrier 7, or to the front or dash, wall 18 of the platform.

The numeral 19 denotes the supports, or knees, extending under the platform, which are siiitabl'y secured to the body of the car for sustaining the vestibuled platform. These knees pass under the end sill, 4, from which they are supported, and extend under the platform just inwardly of the upper step-riser.

This platform is duplicated at the other end of the car, and when the car is moving in the direction indicated by the feathered arrow, shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the entrance passageway is indicated by the broken arrows, and the rear exit passageway is indicated by the solid line arrows, and the offside single exit is permanently closed by the swinging barrier 17, and the door 12', while the duplicate vestibuled platform at the opposite, or front end of the car, has the doors 6 and 8 permanently closed, using only the opposite single exit, which is then on the nearside of the car, for the exit of passengers from the front end of the car, no passengers being permitted to enter the car at its front end, the motorm'an then being in his station denoted by the letter M, while the conductor is then in his station on the rear platform, denoted by the letter C.

In Fig. 5 is disclosed a modification of this invention in which the platform 5 is supported by the knees 19, attached to the side walls of the car 1, which extends under the outer portion ofthe sides of the platform, the surface or floor, of the platform being, substantially, equal in width to the body of the car, and is provided with a step 20 for the entrance and exit passageways, and a step 21 for the opposite single passageway, both steps being in a plane below the floor level of the platform, and either stationary, or movable, as may be desired, and the floor of the platform 5 being one step down below the floor 2 of the car. The partitions, or barriers, 3, at the end of the car body, are the same as those disclosed in the other figures, previously described, which provide station C for the conductor, with equal advantage of position as heretofore stated, the structure shown in this figure permitting the use of vertical plane knees without a lateral bend, the barrier 7, between the entrance and the exit being similar to those in the figures previously described, the dash partition 18, being, also, similar; another object of this construction being that where truck wheels of small diameter are used the trucks can be set nearer to the platforms, and three steps employed of a low and convenient height between the rail and the floor of the car.

Fig. 6 is the same as Fig. 5, with the exception that the offside single exit step 21 is located adjacent the end of the body of the car.

Fig. 7 is the same as Fig. 5, with the exception that the partitions, or barriers, 3, are omitted, the conductors station C being the same.

Fig. 8 is the same as Fig. 6, with the omission of partitions, or barriers, 3, the conductors station C being the same.

Fig. 9 is similar to Fig. 5, with the ex ception that the steps 22 and 23 are let in to the platform 5, and made immovable, both of said steps being within. the vertical planes of the side walls of the car extended, the knees 19 extending under the platform 5, just at the rear of the step-risers, the conductors station C remaining the same.

Fig. 10 is the same as Fig. 9, with the exception that step 23, is adjacent the end of the car body.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new in this application, and desire to secure by Letters-Patent is:

1. A car having an opening at the end thereof, supports extending from the end of the car, an extension on the supports provided with a floor, an ingress and an egress passageway leading over the floor from the car opening to one side of the extension provided with a plurality of immovable steps wholly inside a vertical plane of the side walls of the car extended, an egress passageway leading from the car opening to the other and opposite side of the extension provided with a plurality of immovable steps wholly inside a vertical plane of the side walls of the car extended, leaving a conductors station.

2. A car having an opening at the end thereof, supports extending from the end of the car, an extension on the supports pro vided with a floor, an ingress and an egress passageway leading over the floor from the car opening to one side of the extension provided with a plurality of immovable steps wholly inside a vertical plane of the side walls of the car extended, an egress passageway leading over the floor from the car opening to the other and opposite side of the extension provided with a plurality of immovable steps wholly inside a vertical plane of the side walls of the car extended leaving a station adapted for the conductor to perform his duties while facing simultaneously boarding incoming out-going and alighting passengers.

3. A car having an opening at the end thereof, an extension at the end of the car, duplex ingress and egress passageways leading from the car opening to one side of the extension each provided with a plurality of steps wholly inside a vertical plane of the side walls of the car extended, an egress single passageway leading from the car opening to the side of the extension opposite the duplex passageways provided with a plurality of steps wholly inside a vertical plane of the side walls of the car extended leaving a conductors station adjacent the steps of the single egress passageway.

4. A car having an opening at the end thereof, supports extending from the end. of the car, an extension provided with a floor on the supports, a duplex ingress and egress passageway leading over the floor from the car opening to one side of the extension provided each with a plurality of steps wholly within a vertical plane of the side walls of the car extended, an egress single passageway leading over the floor from the car opening to the side of the'extension opposite the duplex passageway provided with a plurality of steps wholly inside a vertical plane of the side walls of the car extended, the supports and top-risers of the steps being flush with each other for upholding the plurality of the car, a duplex ingress and egress passageway divided by a barrier leading from the car opening to one side of the extension each passageway provided with steps the width of each passageway not exceeding one half the length of the extension, an egress single passageway leading from the car opening to the opposite side of the extension and intersecting one of the other passage ways and provided with steps of approximately the same width not exceeding one half the length of the extension, and a barrier on the extension adapted to closeoff and guard the egress single passageway leaving a conductors station.

6. The combination of a car having an opening at the end thereof, supports extending from the end of the car, a platformex-' tending over and upheld by the supports, a duplex ingress and egress passageway leadmg to one side of the platform provided with a step-well having a plurality of immovable steps extending wholly inside a vertical plane of the side walls of the car extended, an egress single passageway leading to the side of the platform opposite the dirplex passageway provided with a step well having a plurality of immovable steps ex tending wholly inside a vertical plane of the side walls of the car extended, the extensions of the supports joining the top-risers of the steps thereby supporting the stepwells andsteps wholly inside the vertical plane of the side walls of the car extended.

7. A car having an opening at the end thereof, a platform at the end of the car, a duplex ingress and egress passageway leading from the car opening to one side of the platform provided with an inwardly extending step-well having a plurality of immovable steps wholly inside a vertical plane of the side walls of the car extended, an egress single passageway. leading from the car opening to the side of the platform opposite the duplex passageway provided with an inwardly extending step-well having a plurality of immovable steps wholly inside a vertical plane of the side walls of the car extended leaving a conductors station adjacent the step-well of the egress single pas sageway.

8. A car having an opening for passengers at the center of the end thereof, an extension at the end of the car, a step-well,

sunk into the side of the extension provided with a plurality of steps wholly inside a vertical plane of the side walls of the car extended, a barrier intermediate the length of the step-well leading to and ending intermediate the opening at the car end dividing the step-well and forming an ingress' and egress passageway over the extension, a step-well sunk into the opposite side of the extension provided with a plurality of steps wholly inside a vertical plane of the side walls of the car extended, leaving a conductors station.

9. A car having an opening for passengers at the center of the end thereof, an extension at the end of the car, a step-well sunk into one side of the extension provided with a plurality of steps wholly inside a vertical plane of the sidewalls of the car extended, a barrier intermediate the length of the stepwell leadingto' and ending intermediate the opening at the car end dividing the step-well and forming an ingress and egress passage way over the extension, a step we'll sunk into the opposite side of the extension provided with a plurality, of steps wholly inside a vertical plane of the side walls of the ear extended, leaving a con'ductors station, outside the patlr of passenger travel.

10. A car having an opening for passengers at the center of the end thereof,- an extension at the end of the car, a stairway sunk into one side of the extension provided with a plurality of steps wholly inside a vertical plane of the side walls of the car exten'ded, a barrier intermediate the length of the stairway leading to and ending intermediate the opening at the car end dividing the stairway and forming an ingress and egress passageway over the extension, a stairway sunk into the opposite side of the extension provided with a plurality of steps wholly inside a vertical plane of the side walls of the car extended, leaving a conductors station.

11. A car having an opening at the endthereof, a vestibule at the end of the car, a step-well sunk into one side of the vestibule provided with a plurality of immovable steps wholly inside a vertical plane of the side walls of the car extended, a barrier dividing the step-well and leading over the vestibule floor to the car opening forming an ingress and an egress passageway, 21: stepwell sunk into the opposite side of the vestibule provided with a plurality of immovable steps wholly inside a vertical plane of the side walls of the car extended leaving a conductors station, and doors constructed in sections each the approximate width of a step adapted to fold inwardly over a step to close the vestibule.

12. A car having an opening for passen= gers at the end thereof, knees extending from the end of the car, a platform supported on the knees, a stairway sunk into one side of the platform provided with a plurality of immovable steps wholly inside a vertical plane of the side walls of the car extended dividedby a barrier and forming two passageways, a stairway sunkinto the opposite side of the platfor-n-r provided with a plurality of immovable steps wholly i11- side avertical plane of the side walls of the car extended and forming a single passageway, the top-step risers of the stairways and the knees being flush with each other thereby adapting sufficient room for a platform provided with stairways having a plurality of steps wholly inside a vertical plane of the side walls of the car extended supported by knees.

13. A car having an opening for passengers at the end thereof, a platform at the end of the car, a plurality of passageways leading from the car opening to one side of the platform, a single passageway leading from the car opening to the other side of the platform, a barrier adapted to guard the single passageway provided with means to alternatively close off three distinct portions of the platform.

14. A car having a platform, that is provided with two passageways leading from the end of the ear to one side of the platform and a single passageway leading from the opposite side of the platform and communicating with one of the passageways leading to the other side of the platform, all passageways being provided with steps, the width of the single passageway not exceeding one half the length of the platform thereby providing a station at the side of the single passageway for the conductor, and a barrier between the conductors station and the single passageway, and a barrier connected to the last mentioned barrier adapted to close the single passageway.

15. A car having an opening at the end of the car for passengers, a platform at the end of the car having a floor, a barrier extending from one side of the platform to the end of the car and dividing the opening into two passageways, leading to the side of the platform said platform having a plurality of fixed steps in said passageways and a plurality of fixed steps on the opposite side of the platform forming a passageway whose length does not exceed one half the length of the platform thereby providing a space on the floor of the platform at one side of said passageway for the conductors station, and a barrier between the conductors station and the single passageway, and a barrier connected to the last men tioned barrier adapted to close the single passageway.

16. An end platform for a car having a floor, a barrier extending from one side of the platform to one end of the platform substantially midway its width forming two passageways for passengers, said platform having a plurality of steps in each passageway, said platform also having a plurality of steps on its opposite side forming a passageway for passengers, the width of WlllCll passageway does not exceed one half the length of the platform, thereby providing floor space at one side of said last mentioned passageway for a conductors station, and a barrier between the conductors station and the single passageway, and a barrier connected to the last mentioned barrier adapted to close the single passageway.

17. A car having an opening for passengers at the end thereof, a platform at the end of the car, a plurality of passageways leading from the car opening to one side of the platform, a single passageway leading from the car opening to the other side of the platform, a barrier adapted to guard the single passageway provided with means to self accommodatingly and alternatively close off three distinctly separated difierent sized portions of the platform.

18. A car having a body portion, a platform extending from the body portion, a transverse partition separating the body portion and platform, an opening for passengers in the partition, a single passageway leading from the partition opening to an opening contiguous the partition at the side of the platform, a plurality of passageways leading from the partition opening to openings at the other and opposite side of the platform, leaving a conductors station on the platform contiguous the opening at the side of the platform of the single passageway.

19. A car having a body portion, a platform extending from the body portion, a transverse partition separating the body portion and platform, an opening for passengers in the partition, a single passageway leading from the partition opening to an opening contiguous the partition at the side of the platform, a plurality of passageways leading from the partition opening to openings at the other and opposite side of the platform, leaving a conductors station on the platform contiguous the opening at the side of the platform of the single passageway,

and a barrier adapted to close and guard said platform opening of the single passageway. I

20. A car having an opening at the end thereof, a platform at the end of the car, a

duplex ingress and egress passageway leadlng from the car opening to openings at one slde of the platform provided with steps, an egress passageway leading from the car opening to an opening at the other and opposite side of the platform contiguous the car end provided with steps, leaving a space on the platform bounded by the opening for the single egress passageway and the side of one of the duplex passageways and the side and end of the platform for the conductors station.

21. A car having a body portion, an openmg 1n the end of the body portion, a vestibuled platform extending from the body portion, ingress and egress passageways over the platform, a doorway provided with a door ,ata side of 'the platform, steps leading from the doorway Wholly Within the vertical plane of the side Walls of the tended, and doors in the doorways con- 10 str leted in sections each approximately the Width of a step adapted to fold inwardly over the surface of the lowermost steps to open and d s th doorw y Q A LEY REW T TEEL Witn sses:

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